." When You Come to the End of a Perfect Time," through Dorothy Parker, was actually posted in the November 1917 issue of Vogue.For more of the very best from Vogue's repository, enroll in our Nostalgia email list here.It all started when I traversed the French gray limit of Mme. Claudine, charm expert. Approximately that opportunity, I have actually regularly considered on my own pleased. My lifestyle was but without treatment and sorrow, and also I knew nothing of the bitterness of labour. But that is actually all around now. I will certainly never be the innocent lady that I was prior to Mme. Claudine, beauty professional. entered into my life. I might pet over it, yet I will certainly never be actually the same.You observe, I have actually constantly had a wishing to be stunning. It was a veritable obsession along with me. Due to having people claim to me, in early youth. "Don't you look after-- handsome is as good-looking does," or even "Never ever you mind. dear, it isn't regularly a quite experience that draws in the guys," I grew fairly bitter about the important things. I took every quite woman as an individual affront, and also each time some abnormally fantastic critter passed me, I murmured, resentfully, "' There, but for the elegance of God, go I!" However, though I wanted with all my soul to become beautiful, I never ever took any type of action regarding it. I really did not understand precisely what to carry out. I understood that there were much a lot of lovely women in this globe for appeal to become a plain gift of attributes, yet I had no idea exactly how it was actually attained,-- that is actually, I had no tip until I went to see Mme. Claudine. Mme. Claudine's mauve and also French pray beauty shop was actually a deceit-fully unbusinesslike location, sickening along with the smells of myriad creams as well as grains. Mme. Claudine herself was actually high and dark and exceptionally coated, outfitted in a grey garment that looked as if it had actually been actually placed on with a comb. She possessed a method however at difference with her appearances, for she was speedy and professional, as well as she spoke volubly, in a very clear, rather loud voice.The Etc of BeautyWhen females stop intending to be beautiful, and also Mme. Claudine is actually pushed to cease her organization as a beauty specialist, yet another phoning is awaiting her. She can easily become a broker for "The Lives and also Letters of the World's Greatest Composers," in fourteen volumes so unmistakable an ability I have actually never ever observed. In half an hour she had actually sold me extra creams, lotions, soaps, creams, and also devices than I had actually also understood existed. When the instance having all the write-ups was placed in my venue that mid-day, I could not believe that it held my purchases. I thought that some one had actually played a joke on me and sent me a Ford.Mme. Claudine was actually nothing at all if not complete. She put down a diet checklist, rigidly excluding every little thing palatable, she wrote a set of exercises, and also she gave me a folio of directions regarding the particular use each aid to appeal that I had gotten. It seemed that the essential part of the treatment was actually that it should be used in the evening, just before resigning. The final hour, prior to I went to sleep, was to become the busiest hr of the day. She offered me the opinion that every thing would certainly be wrecked if the ceremonies were con- ducted by sunlight. It must all be actually carried out at night,-- the physical exercises most be experienced, the ointments used, the gears to take charm nearer needs to be actually worn. Those were her last words to me, "Bear in mind, in the evening, prior to you go to sleep.".